Published September 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Classical-field approximation for cold weakly interacting bosons without free parameters

  • 1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/44, 02-668 Warsaw (Poland)
  • 2. Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku, ul. Lipowa 41, 15-424 Bialystok (Poland)
  • 3. Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/44, 02-668 Warsaw (Poland)
  • 4. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Aleja Lotnikow 32/44, 02-668 Warsaw (Poland)

Description

The classical-field approximation to cold weakly interacting bosons allows for a unified treatment of condensed and uncondensed parts of the system. Until now, however, the quantitative predictions were limited by a dependence of the results on a grid chosen for numerical implementation of the method. In this paper, we propose replacing this unphysical ambiguity by an additional postulate: the temperature of the gas at thermal equilibrium should be the same as that of an ideal Bose gas with the same fraction of condensed atoms. As it turns out, with this additional assumption, nearly all atoms are within the classical fields, thus the method applies to the whole system

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 033614-033614.8
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36087103
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; BOSONS; FIELD THEORIES; FORECASTING; GRIDS; IMPLEMENTATION; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRODES; EQUILIBRIUM

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